“These cynical Harris/Cheney billboards are all over Dearborn and Southeast Michigan. Residents in the area are getting mailers with the two linked.”
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-MI) thinks the collaboration between Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris and former Republican Rep. Liz Cheney has gone too far with “cynical Harris-Cheney billboards all over Dearborn” and people in the area “getting mailers with the two linked.” Khanna isn’t clear whether he thinks it’s the Republicans or the Democrats who are being cynical. Cheney, who is widely unpopular among GOP voters due to her prominent role on the J6 Select Committee, has become a regular presence at Harris' campaign events.
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View on XSome progressives have complained as the vice president is seeming to increasingly count on NeverTrump Republican voters embracing the Democratic ticket, NPR has noted. That has upset Harris’ grassroots supporters who don’t want their candidate to forget her commitment to left-wing issues.
“It just hurts, when she says, ‘I’ll have Republicans in my cabinet’ or she’s campaigning with Liz Cheney,” Harris supporter Brian Ramirez, who works with the Georgia Youth Justice Coalition, told NPR.
Cheney suggested at a Harris event on Monday that millions of Republicans should take stock of former President Donald Trump, not “say a word” and cast a clandestine ballot for Harris.
“I think that we are facing a choice in this election. It's not about party, it's about right and wrong and I certainly have many Republicans who will say to me, ‘I can't be public.’ They do worry about a whole range of things including violence, but they'll do the right thing and I would just remind people, if you're at all concerned: you can vote your conscience and not ever have to say a word to anybody and there will be millions of Republicans who do that on Nov. 5,” she said at a Harris rally in Royal Oak, MI, outside of Detroit.
She had joined the vice president for three events that day as the Harris campaign used her as a political talisman to attract disenchanted Republicans, PBS News reported. During the first event, in Malvern, PA, Harris said that Trump “has been using the power of the presidency to demean and to divide us” and “people are exhausted with that.”
“People around the world are watching,” Harris said. “And sometimes I do fret a bit about whether we as Americans truly understand how important we are to the world.”
Cheney is the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, who has also announced that he is supporting Harris. Cheney effectively ended her career as a Republican when she accepted an offer from then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to participate in and then become the vice-chairwoman of the J6 Select Committee that led to what was characterized as a highly partisan investigation into the Capitol riot and protests on Jan. 6, 2021.
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